11.  Mayors from Roaring Fork Valley came to Washington this week to solicit congressional support for a light rail project.

12.  NEMC has tried to turn up the heat on Harvard Pilgrim in recent weeks, soliciting support from Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and State Attyorney General Scott Harshbarger.

13.  On Tuesday, the SEC gave Dickstein permission to solicit the support of other Hills shareholders for ousting four directors and replacing them with board members selected by Dickstein.

14.  Since that time, Alvin Rosenbaum has been engaged in assembling a planning team and soliciting support for the project from potential funding sources across the country.

15.  The mother of three young children, Woods went door to door, soliciting the support of her neighbors.

16.  The Wisconsin board could try to solicit support from shareholders for its resolution, now that management has denied it space on its proxy.

17.  This flagrant use of personal wealth to solicit support figured in our endorsement of the former New Jersey governor, Jim Florio, in the Democratic Senate primary.

18.  Weld has been advised by administration officials to solicit support from as many Republican senators as possible.

19.  When Sarah Brady called Gore that year to solicit his support for the ban on plastic guns, he readily agreed.